Re: [Fedora-packaging] Strawman: standardize 8-space tab width

On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 10:41 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

On 08/21/2009 09:21 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:

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Just to be clear, the proposal wasn't to eliminate tabs from specs, although that was proposed later in the thread. The proposal was to standardize a reasonable tab width.

Define reasonable tab with.

I guess you mean 8, but, whether you like it or not, there is no "standardized tab width".

Conversely, there are huge user groups, who "standardized" to other tab widths, e.g.

• Some BSDs systematically use a tab width of 4 everywhere.
• Some vi users typically user a tab width of 3 (I am not using vi, so

no idea where this originates from).

• Many users apply a tab width of 2.
• There are editors, which seem to guess on "best tab expansions".

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These projects have standardized their tab widths. Why shouldn't Fedora?